Rich Eisen and David Wild

Show Summary

Adam opens the show with David Wild in studio. David will be writing for the upcoming Billboard Music Awards, and Adam recalls when he hosted that show over a decade ago. He also talks about completing the audiobook today, and rants about coleslaw. David and Adam then exchange some great songs, and discuss the best live bands they’ve ever seen. Later, Adam talks to a caller about Santana, and jokes with David about Lenny Kravitz and Prince.

Rich Eisen joins the podcast next, and talks to Adam about some of the craziness going on in the NFL. They discuss the weird way team owners dress, and also recall the old Ancient Chinese Secret commercial. Further discussing the NFL, the guys chat about Junior Seau, Randy Moss, and the competition between Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow.

In the news, Alison plays a clip from the Colombian prostitute in the secret service scandal. They also discuss a 13-year-old boy playing hockey on a girls team, and Alex Trebek’s pending retirement. As the show wraps up, Rich talks about his new reality show, ‘The Great Escape.’

NRBQ…great underrated band, but Wild is wildly inaccurate on which album “Me and the Boys” is on…it’s on 1980’s “Tiddlywinks” album, not “NRBQ at Yankee Stadium”(1978). “Yankee Stadium” is indeed a brilliant album, though…get ‘em both.

very funny observation! thanks bj’s for pi’s
haven’t listened to this episode yet, but do enjoy the cherry pie “jade stage 4…” diversions quite a lot.

to ron mexico’s comment regarding adam’s lack of musical knowledge: i couldn’t disagree more. he has an almost encyclopedic memory for genres, band names, and his beloved horn sections. i will say this though – lauding elvis costello for his writing of “… peace love and understanding” (a nick lowe tune) was pretty sad, considering his professed love for both song writers. i also get pissed when he bad-mouths r.e.m., only because i happen to be friends with their keyboard/bassist.

Uh…. Everyone knows David Wild has been a music journalist for Rolling Stone magazine for the last 3 or so decades (or thereabouts), so yeah, he’s met a few cool guys and has cool stories about them. That’s kinda why he’s on the show.
I don’t know why people get their panties in a bunch about his “Name-dropping”. I mean, he’s only had this long and interesting career JUST so he could name drop, so give him a break!
And Green Day is a great live show. They have a hell of a lot more energy and charisma than most bands out there. God forbid the Aceman has an opinion.

No his problem, like Adam, is to turn every fucking thing mentioned into a story about himself. Ala an attention whore. Rolling Stones is a has been magazine so who cares about this fat fark. Never once have i have ever heard one musician talk about David, good or bad. He is a legend in his own mind.

The Calgon commercial was subtly racist? The Chinese woman in the commercial looks like she came from the rice patties or off the wall in a Chinese restaurant. I can see the people making the commercial now thinking “Hmm, this woman is obviously Chinese but her voice is so American so we need to figure out some way to communicate it . Can we put a photo of the great wall of China in the background? No? How about a rickshaw? Maybe we can have her eating sweet and sour pork? No? How about a big portrait of Chairman Mao? No? Okay, so here’s what we’ll do. Let’s get her dressed up like a six year old coming from a Hong Kong slumber party with pigtails and all, and have her husband look like Bruce Lee, but works at launder-mat. And instead of those large institutional washing machines lets have them use some crappy washing machine they picked up from JC Penny’s.

Anyone who has not checked out Ace on the House is really missing out on some great Adam and Ray conversation. I have very little interest in home improvement, however those two boyhood friends keep me entertained for an hour every week with their stories of past insane shop teachers and anecdotes of former misdeeds of their youth.

I thoroughly enjoyed the video tour of the new studio from the last episode.

Holy crap! David WIld brought back great memories by bringing up NRBQ. Being in CT I had to have seen them at least 50 times back in the day. They only song that ever got airplay was Ridin’ In My Car, but my favorite has always been Howard Johnson’s Got His HoJo Workin’. I think Al Anderson is based in Nashville and writing CW music still. Best memory was seeing him one Christmas night at a local club where it was just him sitting on a stool playing an acoustical set of NRBQ songs. Thanks David!!!

Adam – I hate cranberries in my oatmeal cookies too, and don’t even get me started on raisins!
I do LOVE oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but I digress. I’ve been told by my baking friends that oatmeal cookies tend to get dry and the cranberries or raisins are in there to offset the dryness.

The name-dropping from David Wild does get tiring after awhile (every reference has to lead to an uninteresting experience he’s had with every celebrity). And he’s way too sycophantic. If he could have a few negative things to say about these people, it would be more interesting. Instead, everyone is “the best” or “the greatest” or “his favourite”.